In today’s society, there is a race epidemic that is still prevalent. There has always been a cry for equal justice and equality amongst minority. Who is minority? Minority in respect to race is a portion of society that is outranked to the dominant group. It may be politically financially or just socially. The two main groups that experience such is normally blacks and Latino/Hispanics. Many times these groups experience a narrowing of opportunities. Being a part of a minority it is essential in being aware of the system and your place within the system. The way blacks are handled is a problem caused by the system. Minorities have been conditioned through institutions that it is so embedded them, but this all stems from a place that they
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If we are to take a robust and thorough look at black men in our society we see that they are not self-made victims. In relationship to the movie “Goodbye Uncle Tom” of the inhumanity of what previous generations had to go through It showed how black people were being exploited, raped and killed for no reason other than being inferior. It exposes the facets of racism and capitalism. Which is quite intriguing thus to the fact that the U.S is built on capitalism. The trauma of this physical defacement verifies slight in comparison to the psychological anguish inflicted on black men. The powerless feeling of witnessing your family raped or beaten. Removing fathers; the authority figure to the white master shaped dejection and chaos within a black man’s life. This all sparked the violence we see today in the black communities. Masculinity then was tainted by constant swallowing of his manhood and his inability to defy his …show more content…
If we were to observe the media or just or surroundings it is now seen with all forms of violence, but no longer just aimed at the “people in power” or the whites, but anyone who these black men feel threatens their masculinity. As stated before however these black men not self-made victims. The political system, the legal system, the educational system, economic system, religious system, the military and the media are all institutions controlled by white people. Many believe that it is intended to construct dysfunctional patterns among
If we are to take a robust and thorough look at black men in our society we see that they are not self-made victims. In relationship to the movie “Goodbye Uncle Tom” of the inhumanity of what previous generations had to go through It showed how black people were being exploited, raped and killed for no reason other than being inferior. It exposes the facets of racism and capitalism. Which is quite intriguing thus to the fact that the U.S is built on capitalism. The trauma of this physical defacement verifies slight in comparison to the psychological anguish inflicted on black men. The powerless feeling of witnessing your family raped or beaten. Removing fathers; the authority figure to the white master shaped dejection and chaos within a black man’s life. This all sparked the violence we see today in the black communities. Masculinity then was tainted by constant swallowing of his manhood and his inability to defy his …show more content…
If we were to observe the media or just or surroundings it is now seen with all forms of violence, but no longer just aimed at the “people in power” or the whites, but anyone who these black men feel threatens their masculinity. As stated before however these black men not self-made victims. The political system, the legal system, the educational system, economic system, religious system, the military and the media are all institutions controlled by white people. Many believe that it is intended to construct dysfunctional patterns among